Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Tomoaki Ikeda

Fumiaki Shinozaki

Yuzo Mizobuchi

Satoshi Yoshida

Tomizo Namiki

Hiromichi Tachikawa

Yasuo Washizawa

Masao Kitajima

Sho Nakao

Yoshihiro Ono

Akira Nahara

Minoru Wada

Keishiro Kido

Sadaharu Ikeda

Yohnosuke Takahashi

Takeshi Tomotsu

Syunichi Kondoh

Shigeo Harada

Kazuo Ishii

Osamu Seshimoto

Masayoshi Tsuboi

Hideaki Takeuchi

Toshio Iijima

Yohonosuke Takahashi

Akira Nabara

Yasuo Washigawa

Masamichi Sato

Yoshimasa Aotani

Yoshito Mukaida

Yonosuke Takahashi

Hiroshi Misu

Akio Ishizuka

Eiichi Mizuki

Chiaki Osada

Masamichi Shigyo

Masamiti Sigyo

Masamiti Sigyoo

A negative-working image forming process which comprises uniformly exposing a photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon a sensitive layer comprising (i) an o-quinonediazide compound and (ii) a second compound, to actinic radiation which is able to convert the o-quinonediazide compound to the corresponding indenecarboxylic acid compound, and subsequent to said uniformly exposing imagewise exposing said exposed photosensitive material to a laser beam to thereby render the indenecarboxylic acid compound of the imagewise exposed areas convert to the corresponding indene compound and developing with an alkaline developing solution to dissolve out the unexposed area to the laser beam, wherein said second compound reduces the rate of dissolution of the laser exposed areas in the developing solution by converting the indenecarboxylic acid to the corresponding indene compound, whereby said image results.

Negative image forming process in o-quinone diazide layer utilizing

A magnetic recording medium having, on a non-magnetic support, a magnetic recording layer of a mixture of a ferromagnetic material and an organic lubricant, which magnetic recording layer is prepared by the simultaneous vacuum evaporation process to result in improvements upon the surface strength and slip characteristics.

Magnetic recording medium and process for the production thereof

A thermal recording element comprising a support having formed thereon a recording layer, a first protective layer comprising an organic high molecular weight material having a softening point below about 70.degree. C. formed on the recording layer, and a second protective layer comprising an organic high molecular weight material having high mechanical strength.

Thermal recording elements

A light-sensitive composition comprising addition polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated double bond-containing compounds and a photopolymerization initiator comprising (1) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of benzanthrone, substituted benzanthrones (the substituents of which include halogen atoms, alkyl groups having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and alkoxy groups having 1 to 5 carbon atoms), 1,2-benzanthraquinone and substituted benzanthraquinones (substituents of which include halogen atoms, alkyl groups having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and alkoxy groups having 1 to 5 carbon atoms) and (2) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 4,4'-di-substituted amino-benzophenones represented by the following general formula (a), p-substituted amino-benzaldehyde derivatives represented by the following general formula (b), 2-(p-substituted amino-phenyl)-1,3-dioxolanes represented by the following general formula (c), 4,4'-bis(substituted amino)-N-benzylideneanilines represented by the following general formula (d) and 2-[4-(substituted amino)cinnamoyl]naphthalenes represented by the following general formula (e): ##STR1## wherein R and R', which may be the same or different, each represents a methyl group or an ethyl group, and R.sup.0 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, a --CR.sup.1 R.sup.2 R.sup.3 group, where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or an --OR.sup.4 group, where R.sup.4 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Light-sensitive ethylenically unsaturated materials containing

A recording material having high sensitivity and providing good image quality comprising a support having thereon a recording layer thermally deformable by exposure to high intensity radiation, which recording layer comprises (1) a vacuum deposited layer of at least one organic compound selected from the group consisting of organic carboxylic acids, organic carboxylic acid salts, organic carboxylic acid esters, aromatic sulfonic acids, organic acyclic sulfur compounds, nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds, sulfur-containing heterocyclic compounds, organic macromolecular compounds, dyes and pigments, or (2) a vacuum co-deposited layer of a mixture of (a) at least one of the organic compounds described above and (b) at least one inorganic material selected from the group consisting of a metal or a metal compound.

Recording material

By treating an imagewise exposed and developed image-forming material comprising a support and a light-sensitive resin composition layer with organic solvents miscible with water or with a mixture of water and organic solvents miscible with water, elimination of non-image areas is completed.

Method for processing an image-forming material

A process for forming an image is disclosed wherein a photosensitive image-forming material comprising a diazonium compound or an azide compound is exposed and developed by a peeling development method wherein a development carrier sheet having thereon a layer of an adhesive composition is adhered to the image-forming material, before or after exposure, and, after exposure, peeled from the image-forming material whereby the exposed areas of the photosensitive layer are adhered to the carrier sheet thereby forming a relief image, and the unexposed areas remaining adhered to the support also forming a relief image.

Process for forming an image

A magnetic recording medium comprising a non-magnetic support having thereon a vapor-deposited solid film of a ferromagnetic material formed by vacuum evaporation, on the surface of said magnetic recording medium being further provided a vapor deposited film of an organic lubricant, a macromolecular material or a mixture thereof.

A light-sensitive image-forming material which comprises a support having provided thereon a first layer comprising at least one alcohol-soluble polyamide resin and, on said first layer, a second layer comprising a light-sensitive photoresist composition, said layer containing said alcohol-soluble polyamide resin containing one or more polymers having one or more of a free carboxy group(s), one or more of a phenolic hydroxy group(s) or a maleic anhydride group in a proportion of about 0.1:9.9 to 6:4 by weight to said polyamide resin.

Light-sensitive image-forming material

Light-sensitive photopolymerizable composition

In a process for producing vacuum deposition films which comprises providing a vacuum deposition film composed of an alloy or an intermetallic compound of two or more components having different vapor pressures at a specified temperature on a base, the improvement which comprises charging the component having the lower vapor pressure at said temperature to an evaporation source in a vacuum evaporation chamber in such an amount that the evaporation amount thereof per unit time does not substantially vary, and carrying out vacuum evaporation while continuously feeding a component having a higher vapor pressure at said temperature into said evaporation source in an amount corresponding to the evaporation amount thereof per unit time.

Process for producing vacuum deposition films

A novel desensitizing solution is disclosed which is applied to the surface of a lithographic printing plate coated with a photosensitive layer of a photopolymerizable composition, the desensitizing solution contains a hydrophilic colloid, a free radical polymerization inhibitor and water.

Desensitizing solution for lithographic printing plate

An image-forming method is described using a light-sensitive material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer on the support, said light-sensitive layer containing an o-quinonediazide compound as a first component and a basic carbonium dye as a second component; according to this method images can be obtained both by positive working and negative working techniques. Furthermore, images which are free from yellow light fogging can be obtained by use of a laser beam.

Image-forming method using o-quinone diazide and basic carbonium dye

A photosensitive member comprising a photosensitive layer containing an o-quinonediazide compound as a photosensitive agent and an additive, characterized in that the additive is selected from a group consisting of quinone compounds and aromatic ketone compounds, and a method for forming an image using the same.

Photosensitive members and a process for forming patterns using the same

A process for forming an image is disclosed wherein a photo-sensitive material composed of a support and a layer of a photo-sensitive composition containing a diazonium compound, an o-quinonediazide compound or an aromatic azide is exposed and developed by heating in intimate contact with a peeling development carrier sheet, and subsequently, peeling the carrier sheet from the photo-sensitive material.

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Tomoaki Ikeda